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As a side event to one of the plenary sessions in the Peace and Sport Forum which ends this Friday in Monaco, called 'Breaking down barriers through sports diplomacy' a highly symbolic taekwondo demonstration took place.

November 9, 2016 - The world’s taekwondo family will assemble in Burnaby, Canada, next week as the Canadian town plays host to the WTF Council meeting and WTF General Assembly ahead of the 2016 WTF World Taekwondo Junior Championships. Since the 1st WTF World Taekwondo Junior Championships, Barcelona in 1996, a total of 846 athletes from 102 countries have registered for this 11th Junior Championships.

(August 29, 2016) - The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) today unveiled the Supporting Taekwondo Event Program (STEP) which has been introduced as part of the WTF’s ongoing commitment to reforming its bidding and event management and will ensure greater cooperation, credibility and creativity in hosting WTF events.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the European Taekwondo Union (ETU) have renewed their partnership agreement for the exclusive media rights on all applicable platforms (radio, television and digital) for the ETU Senior European Taekwondo Championship to be held in Montreux, Switzerland, on 19–22 May 2016. The EBU will also be the exclusive service provider for worldwide distribution.

WTF President Chungwon Choue proposed the creation of the so-called “Sport Peace Corps,” together with the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee and the International Sports Federations, at the U.N.-IOC Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland on May 22, 2010.

The 2009 WTF World Taekwondo Championships kicked off on Oct. 14, 2009 for a five-day run at the Ballerup Super Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark.<BR>
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Copenhagen, Denmark is ready for the 2009 WTF World Taekwondo Championships scheduled for Oct. 14-18, 2009, which will draw athletes from a record countries, amid great interest from both the public and the global media, especially televisions.<br>

Oct. 5, 2009- The World Taekwondo Federation’s TV-Media strategy is coming to fruition at the forthcoming 2009 WTF World Taekwondo Championships through agreements on event coverage with a record number of broadcasters around the world.

The coming World Taekwondo Championships 2009 in the Ballerup Super Arena from 14 – 18 October is not only the largest event on Danish ground in 2009. It is also the largest of its kind ever, both in terms of number of athletes and nations. In fact, more than 1,000 athletes from 143 nations have registered by now.

The World Taekwondo Federation’s (WTF) efforts to make taekwondo universally accessible regardless of race, age, gender or disability are moving rapidly forward, assisting the campaign for para-taekwondo to be included in the 2016 Paralympic Games.

The World Taekwondo Federation’s (WTF) efforts to make taekwondo universally accessible regardless of race, age, gender or disability are moving rapidly forward, assisting the campaign for para-taekwondo to be included in the 2016 Paralympic Games.

Two major initiatives launched by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) – the World Athlete Ranking System and the Champions’ League – demonstrate the innovative thinking within the sport as it prepares for next month’s historic 2009 WTF World Taekwondo Championships.<BR>

16 September, 2009. The World Taekwondo Federation’s (WTF) enlightened policy of encouraging women’s participation will be highlighted during next month’s World Taekwondo Championships when Muslim women who are obliged to wear a hijab (head scarf) in public will be among about 400 female competitors from more than 140 countries.<br>

The WTF Taekwondo World Championships event is the largest in Denmark in the Danish Year of Sport 2009, both in terms of number of participants and nations. 950 athletes from 135 nations are registered for the event.

A 10-member taekwondo team from Uzbekistan arrived in Korea on July 22, 2009 to receive an intensive taekwondo training at a Korean university in Busan in preparation for the World Youth Taekwondo Camp scheduled for Aug. 6-11 in Seoul and Muju, North Jeolla Province.<BR>

Electronic protectors will be used at the 2009 WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 14-18 2009, for the first time in the history of the Championships, the World Taekwondo Federation announced on June 29, 2009.<BR>

As part of its ceaseless efforts to consolidate taekwondo’s status as an Olympic sport and to take it beyond a mere sport, the World Taekwondo Federation has come up with several action programs to realize its “new vision.” <BR>

The World Taekwondo Federation will hold a book launch ceremony in Seoul, Korea on April 7, 2009, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Crystal Ball Room on the 3rd floor of the Jamsil Lotte Hotel in Seoul.

The WTF General Assembly, the highest decision-making body of the world’s takewondo governing body, has voted to overwhelmingly approve the proposed amendments to the WTF Rules and Regulations and the WTF Competition Rules.<BR>

As part of its ceaseless efforts to make takewondo more action-packed and exciting, the World Taekwondo Federation held a Joint Technical Meeting for the amendment to the WTF Competition Rules in Seoul, Korea on Nov. 14, 2008.

The World Taekwondo Federation held a ceremony for the participants in
the third edition of the 2008 WTF-KHU Partnership Taekwondo Training
Program at the Suwon campus of Kyung Hee University in Suwon, Korea, on
Sept. 23, 2008.